July 21, 2024 Motivating Your Students to Learn: What Works, What Doesn’t Reading Time: 6 minutes Think back to a time when you were really motivated to learn something, particularly when you felt the activity was engaging and joyful. It could... Categories Teaching/Theory and Practice/Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
June 5, 2024 Designing and Implementing Socio-culturally Responsive and Equitable Classroom Assessments Reading Time: 5 minutes This post was co-authored by Dr. David Baidoo-Anu and Dr. Monsurat Raji, Assessment of Learning Consultants. Given the increased diversities in our classrooms today, student... Categories Assessment Quick Guides/Diverse Identities
May 22, 2024 Understanding Socio-Culturally Responsive Assessments Reading Time: 3 minutes This post was co-authored by Dr. Monsurat Raji and Dr. David Baidoo-Anu, Assessment of Learning Consultants. As postsecondary schools continue to educate a more diverse... Categories Assessment Quick Guides/Diverse Identities
May 22, 2024 Collaborative Online Intercultural Learning (COIL): Public Relations Reading Time: 3 minutes Conestoga College has embarked on its pilot launch Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) as an international virtual exchange program for students. In this kind of virtual exchange,... Categories COIL/Faculty Stories/Intercultural Awareness/Teaching
May 22, 2024 What Does it Mean to be an Intercultural Educator? Reading Time: 3 minutes Diversity is a fact of life in any Canadian postsecondary setting. In addition to diversity in such areas as age, gender, and educational background, Conestoga... Categories Intercultural Awareness/Reflective Practice/Teaching/Teaching International Students
May 8, 2024 Reach Them All with Universal Design for Learning Reading Time: 4 minutes Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is about making course instruction, materials, and content accessible to everyone right from the start. By doing this you will... Categories Accessible Learning/Teaching/Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
May 6, 2024 Accessible Teaching with Copilot Reading Time: 4 minutes An overview of accessible learning at the College and provides ideas for supporting accessible learning using generative AI and AI-supported classroom tools. Categories Accessible Learning/AI and Teaching/Teaching
May 2, 2024 What Did I Do Wrong? What Academic Integrity Means to the International Students Reading Time: 3 minutes By Dr. Nasreen Sultana, Teaching & Learning Consultant While no study indicates that international students plagiarize more frequently, there are worries that these students might... Categories Academic Integrity/Teaching/Teaching International Students
April 17, 2024 Teaching with Sign Language Interpreters (SLIs) or Interpreters in the Classroom Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction As of 2021, there are approximately 382,700 deaf and 3,827,000 hard of hearing people in Canada (Canadian Association of the Deaf, n.d.; Malkowski, 2021).... Categories Accessible Learning/Diverse Identities/Diversity/Equity and Inclusion/Teaching/Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
April 16, 2024 Children in the Classroom Reading Time: 5 minutes By Sara Kafashan and Lauren Spring Thinking about student parents Some of you may have combined studying and parenting and you know how many challenges... Categories Accessible Learning/Class Management/Equity and Inclusion/Teaching